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The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London

Judith Flanders

About the Author Judith Flanders is the author of Inside the Victorian Home and The Invention of Murder .

The Fights on the Little Horn: Unveiling the Mysteries of Custer's Last Stand

Gordon Clinton Harper

The sheer breadth of Gordon Harper’s research is amazing; I’ve read every major account of George Custer’s last...

The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme

John Keegan

From the Publisher 9 1.5-hour cassettes --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. JOHN KEEGAN is the...

The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways

Earl Swift

A man-made wonder, a connective network, an economic force, a bringer of blight and sprawl and the possibility of...

General Lee: A Biography of Robert E. Lee

Fitzhugh Lee

This book admits readers into the mind of the South's greatest hero and permits them to relive the immense achievements...

Crossing the Borders of Time: A True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed

Leslie Maitland

Essay by Leslie Maitland “During the fall that my father was dying, I went back to Europe and found myself seeking my...

Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations

Norman Davies

“An alternative history of Europe that is . . . densely packed yet commendably accessible, magisterial, and...

Dancing with the Enemy: My Family's Holocaust Secret

Paul Glaser

A Look Inside Dancing with the Enemy Rosie Glaser at age seventeen, 1931 Click here for a larger image A still from the...

The Book of Matt: The Real Story of the Murder of Matthew Shepard (Truth to Power)

Stephen Jimenez

An award-winning journalist uncovers the suppressed story behind the death of Matthew Shepard. . . . As Jimenez...

The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch

Miles Harvey

“A jaunty, far-ranging history... Despite the frontier setting, there is something eerily contemporary about...

Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck

Adam Cohen

“This well-written narrative of legal history demonstrates what happens when the powerful and elite in society fail...

I Love You My Child, I'm Abandoning You

Ariela Palacz

This is an inspiring story that moves back and forth in time, between the author's present-day life in Israel and her...

Lost City of the Incas (Phoenix Press)

Hiram Bingham

Review A rich, lively book ... it is the classic adventure― IRISH TIMES Bingham catalogues his finds with admirable...

The Scots: A Genetic Journey

Alistair Moffat

Moffat] is wonderfully able to communicate the epic elements of the story, which matters because that's precisely what...

The Silent War: The Cold War Battle Beneath the Sea

John P. Craven

In October 1962, the United States government demanded that the Soviet Union remove long-range tactical missiles that...

The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke

Andrew Lawler

“Andrew Lawler warns...that Lost Colony fever is a kind of madness. Happily, that doesn’t stop him from plunging...

Bending Toward the Sun: A Mother and Daughter Memoir

Leslie Gilbert-Lurie

“A captivating memoir that explores a complicated, loving, and enduring mother-daughter bond, and reveals how doubts,...

Blood, Tears, and Folly: An Objective Look at World War ll

Len Deighton

From the Publisher "In this well-researched and balanced history of World War II, Deighton analyzes the weapons,...

Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain

John Darwin

From Booklist Founded in a fit of absentmindedness, as the saying goes, the British Empire was never a monolithic...

A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire

Geoffrey Wawro

Exceptionally accessible to the general reader, Wawro offers a picture of an Austro-Hungarian leadership that was...

Dead Run: The Murder of a Lawman and the Greatest Manhunt of the Modern American West

Dan Schultz

From Booklist “The West lives,” Schultz asserts, before launching into this true-crime tale of a sudden shoot-out,...

Louis XIV: A Royal Life

Olivier Bernier

From Publishers Weekly Animated by well-chosen quotes from diarists of the period and the author's enthusiasm, this...

Patton at the Battle of the Bulge: How the General's Tanks Turned the Tide at Bastogne

Leo Barron

Praise for No Silent Night: The Christmas Battle for Bastogne “An exciting chronicle of the one day that changed the...

DK Eyewitness Norway (Travel Guide)

Monika Witkowska

Known… for its four-color maps, photos and illustrations, the [DK] Eyewitness Guides are extremely user-friendly for...